| 释义 |
wailsome, a. rare.|ˈweɪlsəm|
[f. wail n. or v. + -some.]
†a. That is to be bewailed. Obs.
b. Having a wailing sound.
1566J. Studley Seneca's Medea v. (1581) T 5, And this with wailesome murther like shall lose her tender life. 1891Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. vi. (1892) 36 Another wilderness of shut-up houses, wherein it seems that people do continually and feebly strum stringed instruments of a plaintive and wailsome nature. |